Epiphanies: Where Science and Miracles Meet (2nd edition)

Jauregui, Ann. Epiphanies: Where Science and Miracles Meet. 2nd ed. Atria Books/Beyond Words, New York, 2007.

Reading Jauregui’s book is like being invited to a dinner party where three different groups of guests are invited to the table. The first group is discussing her forty-five years of experience as a practicing psychotherapist, considering client stories of surprising insights and breakthrough moments of healing and transcendence. We hear about her close look at psychotherapy in the postmodern age, seeing it more as a mystical calling than a strategy for diagnosing and fixing pathological patterns. The second group is considering her own persistent questions about reality and identity arising from her life-long studies of Christian Science.  In the third group we hear scientists and thinkers reflecting on such topics as: a participatory quantum universe; Freud’s deterministic theories; Isaac Newton’s cosmology as hijacked by “Newtonianism” (65); the efficacy of prayer; fractals and infinity; and chaos giving rise to order. The purpose of this lyrical exchange around the metaphorical dinner table is to “reclaim the invisible landscape” (21)—that elusive something “still missing in our understanding of how the world works. What is certain is that a person can slip into an alignment with these workings” (123).

ISBN-10 (hardcover): 1582701677
ISBN-10 (softcover): 1582701679
ISBN-13: 978-1582701677

See also annotation:

The Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality by Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Special note: The first publisher of Epiphanies (hardcover, first edition) was Atria. That publishing firm no longer exists. The most recent publisher (softcover, second edition) is Beyond Words.